nucmednet Chapter 462: It’s out of control again.
Chapter 462: It’s out of control again.
Government Hall.
A group of court officials stood on the left and right, led by the handsome old man Lu Chongyun.
With his wife returning home and Emperor Hongwen issuing repeated decrees, the old prime minister finally ended his long vacation.
But what he didn't expect was that Emperor Hongwen fell ill in the hall the next day after he went to court.
I don’t know if it’s from another party.
"Prime Minister Lu, have you ever seen His Majesty?"
Lu Chongyun frowned. With his many years of experience as an official, he subconsciously sensed something unusual.
Hearing the voice of the official beside him, Lu Chongyun just shook his head and said nothing.
He had previously requested to see the emperor, but was rejected.
No one is allowed to visit.
It is both reasonable and unreasonable.
It is reasonable that the emperor's illness should not be made known to outsiders.
But at this time of year, this is unreasonable.
There had been news earlier that King Jiang led his army out of Hanhai Pass and headed towards the capital.
It was quite unreasonable for the emperor to suddenly fall ill at this critical juncture.
"Eunuch Peng, are you sure it was His Majesty who summoned us here?"
Lu Chongyun raised his eyes and looked at the old eunuch in the distance.
This person is also an old man beside Emperor Hongwen.
"Mr. Prime Minister, if it weren't for the emperor's own words, how could I dare to pass on the imperial decree?" Eunuch Peng saluted Lu Chongyun, then looked at the court officials present.
"His Majesty has issued an order, which will be read out once His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrives. Please wait patiently, my Lords."
Lu Chongyun stared at Eunuch Peng, thought for a moment, and asked in a deep voice,
"Eunuch Peng, I wonder if the Queen is with His Majesty?"
Hearing Lu Chongyun's question, Eunuch Peng was stunned for a moment, then he said,
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, you may not know that the Queen and Princess Yunhe went to Mingxi Valley to pray for blessings yesterday and are not in the palace now."
Hearing this, Lu Chongyun took a step forward, his brows already furrowed into a frown.
Feeling the pressure, Eunuch Peng's legs weakened and he almost fell, but he still pretended to be calm and said quickly,
"At the moment, only Sun Taiwei is accompanying you. It's not that I don't want you to come in. This is the will of His Majesty."
Hearing this, Lu Chongyun retracted his step.
The Chief Censor has died, and General Sun is accompanying the emperor. It is reasonable for him to be in charge of the overall situation here.
……
"It seems that the Prime Minister has noticed something, but he seems unsure."
Outside the hall, Li Mu pricked up his ears and made a judgment based on the conversation and Lu Chongyun's behavior.
However, Li Mu had no intention of going in. His figure flashed and he leaped towards the direction of the imperial garden.
You are sick, but are you still admiring the flowers in the Imperial Garden?
What a fool!
With the help of divination, Li Mu found the secret room behind the rockery in the imperial garden almost effortlessly.
He is the emperor after all, but he can be placed under house arrest. This is something I have never seen before.
As soon as he stepped into the secret room, Li Mu heard the noise inside.
Two people!
No need to think about it, Emperor Hongwen and General Sun.
However, although Li Mu had already prepared himself mentally, he still couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw this scene.
"Oh, your Majesty and the general are in such good spirits... Kukuku."
Li Mu's shoulders were shaking violently, and he could hardly hold it back.
I saw two old men imprisoned in the bloody prison under the secret room.
General Sun still has the demeanor of a master.
He sits cross-legged with his eyes closed, yet maintains his composure.
On the other hand, Emperor Hongwen squatted aside, holding a grass root in his mouth, looking up at the sky, with a sour face as if everyone owed him money.
Hearing Li Mu's voice, General Sun suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes full of confusion.
Emperor Hongwen was very excited, and stretched out his claws towards the blood prison, "Qingyi, the person coming is Qing...ah!"
As soon as his hand touched the blood prison, the whole person was flung away.
"Your Majesty, don't be excited. I came to see you, didn't I?"
Li Mu walked slowly to the front of the blood prison and squatted down like Emperor Hongwen.
"Qingyi, why are you here? Could it be that you are also..."
After the previous excitement, Emperor Hongwen finally realized why Li Mu appeared here.
This secret room is extremely hidden, and the mechanism outside was created by the ancestors of the Mohist school. Without understanding the method, it is impossible to get in.
Thinking of this, Emperor Hongwen showed a look of regret in his eyes and shook his head desperately.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"
"Boy, His Majesty treats you so well, why does he also...ah!" General Sun on the side also looked regretful.
After seeing what Li Mu had done in the hall, he was looking for an opportunity to spar with Li Mu.
But I didn't know that before I could find the opportunity, I would become a prisoner.
"You don't need my help? Then I'll leave?" Li Mu raised his eyebrows, thinking that the reactions of these two people were a bit strange.
"You, you are here to save me?" Upon hearing this, Emperor Hongwen showed a glimmer of hope in his eyes and stared at Li Mu and asked,
"You, how did you know that I was here, and how did you get in here?"
"Come in? There's only a Huarong Road as a combination lock outside, anyone can come in." Li Mu shrugged and looked at Emperor Hongwen.
"As for how you know... I would like to ask Your Majesty, you are, have you gone too far again?"
"Qing Yi's talent is indeed amazing, that's right... again!" Emperor Hongwen sat down on the ground with a look of regret on his face.
"After you reminded me before, I already knew that the Imperial Master was secretly colluding with the Rongyi people."
"I was planning to uproot it, but I didn't expect... I didn't expect..."
"I didn't expect the prince to rebel?" Li Mu saw that Emperor Hongwen seemed to be unable to speak, so he spoke for him.
Li Mu had felt something was wrong before, and sure enough, Emperor Hongwen messed up again.
The last time he conspired with Prince Yan to deal with the Lin family, he almost got the Prince Yan's Mansion destroyed. This time, even he himself was in danger.
"I treated that rebellious son like this, and all the concubines in the harem have done the same thing! I am afraid that brothers will quarrel with each other. I really can't understand why that rebellious son is like this! This throne will be his sooner or later."
Emperor Hongwen became angrier as he spoke, and his fists pounded the ground with loud clanging sounds.
Li Mu's eyes widened, and he said in astonishment, "You haven't touched any of them?"
"I was planning to... huh?" Emperor Hongwen had found an outlet to vent his anger and was about to tell Li Mu about his earth-shaking plan if the crown prince had not rebelled.
However, when he noticed what Li Mu was paying attention to, he stopped talking and looked at Li Mu with a puzzled look.
General Sun also opened one eye, then quickly closed it again.
He secretly thought that if this kid rebelled, it would not be for the throne, but for the virgin girl in the harem.
Seeing the reactions of the two, Li Mu realized that his focus was a little off, and he quickly coughed twice.
I originally wanted to persuade Emperor Hongwen to fulfill his responsibilities as a husband, otherwise the women in the harem would be too miserable.
After thinking for a while, he still didn't speak, and then changed the subject.
"Actually, there is something I wanted to say before, but..."
"Forget it. Now that I've said it, Your Majesty shouldn't think that I'm trying to sow discord between your father and son."
Li Mu sat down on the ground and said seriously,
"It's not hard to understand why the prince rebelled."
"Why? Have I done anything to let him down? Besides, besides... he asked me to go to your house to ask for someone and I didn't agree... what else have I done to let him down? He doesn't understand my intentions!"
Although Emperor Hongwen thought that the previous incident with Liu Mingyan was indeed a bit unkind, it was ultimately for the good of the crown prince. Choosing a new crown princess for him was better than being slapped in the face by Li Mu.
Everyone knew about the affair between the two of them. The most Emperor Hongwen did was not punish Li Mu, but this could not be used as a reason for the prince to rebel!
Li Mu didn't expect that it was related to him, and he didn't want to delve into the reasons, so he hurriedly said,
"Your Majesty is in good health. You can sit on the throne for at least another 40 to 50 years. By then, the Crown Prince will be in his 70s or 80s. How can he not be anxious?"
When these words came out, Emperor Hongwen was stunned.
The Grand Commandant Sun at the side opened his eyes and glared at Li Mu, saying in a bad tone,
"Boy, are you here to save people or to teach me? If you want to save people, hurry up and I will teach you how to use the array talisman. If you don't want to save people... leave quickly and stop tempting me!"
"Formation talisman? What formation talisman?" Li Mu was puzzled.
"How can you save people without the formation talisman!" Sun Taiwei stared at Li Mu, his expression seemed to say, 'Boy, are you kidding me! '
Li Mu frowned slightly, thinking to himself, what kind of formation talisman is needed to save you?
Just as he was about to reach out and pull the two out of the blood prison, he saw Emperor Hongwen shaking his head vigorously and said in a serious tone,
"No, even with Qing Yi's strength, if he is trapped..."
"Break the formation! Yes! Break it directly! Qingyi, as long as you pull the Zhenguo Sword out of the center of the formation, you can break the formation!"